372 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. Eriochilus 
meine ee —Án " — more Y 
than . 5. E. multiflorus. 
l.E E ossis, R. Br. Prod. 323. A ae plant, rarely ex- 
ceeding 6 in., more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaf f radical, ovate, 
ers , usually dying away before the time of flowering, but occasionally 
still persisting at the base of some flowering specimens. Flowers pink, 
solitar ee or 2 or3 rather distant, the subtendine bracts loosely stieathises 
1 to 2 lines long, and no empty ones on the scape lower down. Dorsal 
sepal see slightly incurved, narrow-lanceolate, wl scarcely con- 
tracted at the bas e, 3 to 34 lines long; lateral sepals ha If as long m 
very acute, ellipticadstaaioeolite! contracted into a distinct often "glen 
stipes ; petals dete shorter than the dorsal E linear or ue 
cde 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 26, t. 120.A ; Epipactis eueullata, pud PI. No v. 
Holl. ji. 61, t. 211, £ 2; :” Eriochilus "Pucullatus, Reichb. f. Beitr. 97. 
Queensland. Bri T ER ne ae Moreton bay, W. Hill (with smaller ^ ers). 
S. Wales, Port Jackson,. R. eo ese oe frequent in the “doling? A. 
Cunningham ; f i England, Leichhar 
di Wale e dw Phillip, R. Brown; from the Yarra to 
Gips band, E Mueller and 4 
Tasmania. Port Dalrym a R. M common in open and somewhat dry | 
ground throughout the island, J. 1 
S. Aus tralia Near Mount Burken, E Mueller. 
E. scaber, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. v and Sp. Orch. 427. 
Closely allied to Æ. autumnalis, usually but n t always shorter, not so 
slender, and hairy with Ava transparent h Leaf radical, 
i. erwise with the same pr veia ons. Labellum- di eget pro- 
duced into small erect rounded lateral lobes, the lamina or middle 
lobe almost orbicular, very convex and ensely er . Column not 
e 1 
anther. Pollen-masses Dtm and m contracted into caudicles as — 
in Æ. pec mnalis.— l. Preiss ; 
W. Australia. bie Hayn iver, Miss gelo; Perongerup, F. Mu eller; — 
Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2207. (whic I have not seen) ; Murchison 
river, Oldfield Y 1 
E. Lindleyi, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 10, from Swan river, Preiss, n. 2206, which : 
have not seen, is distinguished by the shortly pedunculate less ern flowers, but re A 
=i only a slight variety of E. scaber, to which it is reduced by Reic chb. 3 
. E. tenuis, Lindl. — Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch A. 427 
inue very slender, 3 to 6 in. high and single-flowered in ui the T 
